Chapter 307: Inquire about Widow Chen

When Chen Xuhui heard Mu Xiu's instructions, he pressed the pressurized water well, and the well water was continuously transported from the water pipe.

The empty bucket placed under the machine began to flow white thick slurry, and the back of the machine was constantly spitting sweet potato residue.

"Keep getting the bucket in exchange!" Seeing that the bucket under the machine was full, Mu Xiu hurriedly said again, Mu Shui took a few steps out, brought in another wooden bucket in one hand, and then quickly moved the bucket that was already full, and put the empty bucket under the machine to continue.

In this way, a sack of sweet potatoes was quickly made, and finally 3 large vasks of starch slurry were obtained.

"So fast! It took less than 10 minutes to get it all done. Zhou Shuilian looked at the alarm clock that Mu Xiu bought in the yard and said in surprise.

"This machine, if you use it skillfully, it is said that a thousand catties of sweet potatoes can be ground out in an hour." Mu Xiu is still conservative, in fact, when this machine was bought, others said that a thousand catties of sweet potatoes could be done in forty minutes.

"Oh my God, those 10,000 catties of sweet potatoes can be made in one day." Mu Shui sighed.

"Don't think about the 10,000 catties first, it's better to work hard to beat out the 1,000 catties of sweet potatoes in our house now." Zhou Shuilian said that she was going to move sweet potatoes again.

"Mother, you wait first, this starch slurry has to settle overnight, how can we have so many buckets to pick up the starch slurry at this time." Mu Xiu couldn't help but remind.

"That's right, but we only have these buckets, so it's hard to wait a night to do a little bit in the future... How long is this going to go? Zhou Shuilian suddenly frowned.

"Tomorrow I'll go chopping bamboo with Xuhui, and I'll make a few more barrels and come back." Mu Shui proposed.

"Dad, how much do you have to make for the barrel, I have an idea." Mu Xiu's eyes rolled, but he thought of a way.

"What's the solution?" Mu Xiaocao asked.

"When our family built a house before, didn't there still a lot of cement left, so it was better to build a big pool with cement and come out specifically to get this." Mu Xiu proposed.

"Okay, anyway, our yard is big, you see how big it is." Mu Shui nodded.

Finally, under the command of Mu Xiu, a pool was built in the yard that was half the size of Mu Xiu's calf, and a round mouth was opened at the bottom of the cement pool.

"With this, the yard is really a lot smaller." Mu Shui stood up and wiped the sweat on his head with his hands, although the weather was cold, but after these jobs were done, Mu Shui was also busy sweating.

"It's okay, when the noodles are finished, there are not enough sundries to put in this pool." Mu Xiu said.

"Yes, but this cement won't be able to dry for a while and a half, and it will take at least two days to use it." Chen Xuhui touched the hardness of the cement and said.

"Don't worry, anyway, our family will have sweet potatoes this year, and I'm not in a hurry to meet at this time, and I'll go to the county seat tomorrow to buy something." Mu Xiu said.

Seeing that it was not possible to get it done today, everyone packed up their things and went to the hall.

Dinner was also simple, it was pork stewed vermicelli, plus cabbage radish and some hors d'oeuvres, a large pot was served on the table, and everyone ate steamed porridge.

"Mother, do you remember the widow Chen at the head of the village?" Mu Xiaocao took a bite of the steamed bun and suddenly asked Zhou Shuilian.

"Remember, why don't you remember, the head of her house is to go to the mountains to find herbs, but she fell down from the mountain, and the person fell away, she is more miserable than me." Zhou Shuilian heard Mu Xiaocao ask about Widow Chen, and her hand holding the steamed bun stopped in mid-air, and sighed with emotion.

"Looking for herbs for his daughter?" Mu Xiaocao asked thoughtfully.

"yes, you remember that? At that time, you were... You're not at home, and we don't see each other much, so I don't think I told you about it. Zhou Shuilian said with some doubts.

"I guess too, that girl in his family doesn't seem to be able to walk." Mu Xiaocao really couldn't remember these things about the Chen family, so she could only say tentatively.

"Yes, when I was a child, I had a fever, and after the fever subsided, I couldn't walk on one leg, and her father heard that there was a kind of herb in the mountain, which could be cured by applying it to the leg, so her father went to the mountain to look for herbs, but the result was ...... Later, a barefoot doctor came to the village and said what kind of polio was it...... It seems to be called this name....." Zhou Shuilian recalled as she spoke.

"Polio" Mu Xiu was also a little stunned, this kind of disease has a 100% disability rate, how can it be improved with traditional Chinese medicine?

"It should be, later, there are only their orphans and widows left, two years ago, the village came to the barefoot doctor, the barefoot doctor also said that it was not cured, and in the end it seems that the little girl rarely appeared, speaking of which, it seems that when the sweet potatoes were distributed two days ago, Widow Chen also came, and she was a woman in her family...... It's also not good. Zhou Shuilian's tone was full of sympathy.

"This Widow Chen is a person who knows what is good and bad, you don't know how angry it is today......" Mu Xiaocao angrily said all today's events.

Listening to Mu Xiaocao's words, everyone was angry.

"It's really kind to be treated as a donkey's liver and lungs, how can these people do this." Zhou Shuilian's eyes were red with anger.

"We didn't do anything to be sorry for them, why did we say it so ugly." Mushui was also a little sad.

Some of these people are people from Mu Shui's generation, everyone grew up together from a young age, and some are the younger generations of Mu Shui who grew up, Mu Ping is silent during the day, but when he meets these people, he has something to look for, and he has helped them wholeheartedly, but I didn't expect these people to be so ugly behind the scenes.

"This is called not being able to see others well, and everyone has to have a bad life, so I feel balanced in my heart, sister, have you written down who it is?" Mu Xiu also said through gritted teeth.

"Write it down, the most annoying thing is the daughter-in-law of the Da Zhuang family, our family also helped him sell fish, how can she be embarrassed to chew her tongue together!" Mu Xiaocao mentioned the big strong daughter-in-law, and couldn't help but bite her lower lip.

"I didn't even see them like this before!" Zhou Shuilian muttered to herself.

"This is what the book says, not to suffer from few, but to suffer from inequality." Chen Xuhui suddenly interjected.

"Brother Chen, the balance in these words should be their own share, that is, everyone should get as much as they do, and they don't do anything, and they still think about taking advantage of others to make a fortune, which is called a daydream." Mu Xiu took a class with Chen Xuhui, and Chen Xuhui nodded while listening.

"You two don't know what you're talking about, anyway, it's better for these people who don't know what to do and have bad intentions to have less contact, and don't end up being bitten by a snake like the farmer and the snake." Mu Xiaocao thought of the story of the farmer and the snake that Mu Xiu told Li Pandi, and immediately learned and used it.